Interesting that they went with a new fin to house it.

Ianmb17 wrote:The marines are coming hope they bring ospreys too

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Hope the QE has plenty of crayons on hand.

that still puts pressure on the Navy to adopt a larger hull. Did anything come out of the idea to re-role the coastal monitor Zumwalts into blue-water 'Squadron Leaders'? Defense News with a piece on how the Navy is proceeding with the Zs, which is basically to move on toward full operation capabil...

Cool, they confirmed EASR is SPY-6(V)2 and Backfit is (V)4. Was worried they were going to get silly with the designations. Interesting to see Lockheed pitching what appears to be an ExLS (or related) VLS option for the modular weapon bays on LCS. Hopefully, when we're near the finish line and there...

Is the Crusader going to come back from dead? First they are putting a longer barrel on an existing gun, to get 50 Km... but that is still a towed gun, with all its vulnerabilities. I've not seen much sign of a Crusader-style system returning. They're sticking with improvements to M109A7, including...

Lockheed Martin unveils potential maritime follow-on version of DARPA’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept at #SAS2019 today. Externally mounted to F-35C.

Was tempted to put this onto our own 2020 (Refine?) thread as such things always run over by 3-4 years, or take a U-turn. In a very short format where the US Army plans to be by way of modernisation by then: https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/Army-Big-Six-2020-2024.jpg A Penny ...

that still puts pressure on the Navy to adopt a larger hull. Did anything come out of the idea to re-role the coastal monitor Zumwalts into blue-water 'Squadron Leaders'? Officially, they're supposed to be taking on a greater ASuW role as well as being testbeds for new technology. Actual work towar...

Very impressive. Will it solve the weight issues they were having with the design of the future ABs if they can use smaller Arrays? It makes back fitting the existing Flight IIAs a lot more practical, that's for sure. And it makes the Spy-6 architecture super appealing as an export product. But I d...

KDX III Batch II on Xav's site : https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ROK-Navy-Closer-to-Gain-Sea-Based-ABM-Capability-with-KDX-III-Batch-II-770x410.jpg Based on the existing Sejong the Great -class the new AEGIS destroyers will feature several improvements including anti-ballistic m...

Navy determines SPY-6 radar three times stronger than original requirement ID has a rather tall paywall, but some highlights: The Air and Missile Defense Radar program set a requirement for the SPY-6(V)1 sensor to be 30 times more sensitive than the SPY-1. The Navy has validated that the new sensor...

Cooper wrote:Terrible name....for a submarine.

It's a capital surface ships name, not a subs.

They've all been Battleship names thus far, KGVI fits that mold. Doesn't seem any more out of place on a SSBN than on a CVF.

TACTICOS now has a foot in the door

Along with D-E applications, the USN has been looking at FESS for Railgun's energy storage needs.

Ok I see the word "Security" in the platforms description, but what does it have to provide this security besides its actual presence. Surly it should have one of those 57mm the US seems to want to stick on everything these days? It has "security" because nobody in the Administr...

The Canadians intend that a trio of their T26s will be Air Defense-focused... It will be interesting to see how that turns out. Any idea if it's the first three or the last three? I've not seen firm plans as of yet, but the intention as I understood it was to start with the AAW hulls and switch to ...

This wasn't just any Proceedings article, this was a Proccedings article by Norman Friedman . Even with Greenert's gang of dunces still running things, there are plenty of Navy people who take special note when someone like Friedman opines. Similarly, where did that "two versions" thing fo...

ST Engineering Wins Polar Security Cutter contract from the U.S. Navy https://www.navalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ST-Engineering-Wins-Polar-Security-Cutter-contract-from-the-U.S.-Navy-770x410.jpg Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering), a global technology, defence and engi...

To me I don’t understand why the RN would want to introduce an new CMS, no matter what way you cut it a new CMS would require extra training and no matter how larger the customer base it would require a new maintance line with all the cost that this creates. I can’t see why the RN wouldn’t say in t...

Lord Jim wrote:Are these Flight II LPDs the ones being built to replace the LSD in each USN amphibious group, formally known as the LX(R) class?

Yes.

Retiring USS H>S Truman early would be a big mistake unless there is something they are keeping quiet about that make its continued service untenable. There isn't, this is budget games from the same strategy people who brought you "we'll cut land training back and do more of it at sea even tho...

According to Jane's the USAF is seriously looking at procurement of the F-15EX, requesting funding for 10 in the 2020 budget. This has been seen as a way to maintain the number of aircraft within the USAF and offer a counter to the F-35 which is now being seen as no the answer to everything the ser...

Interesting to see them using a car ferry as a powered lighter.

Exactly and the question said remain or leave, it was not leave only with a deal, it was not remain but as we were. The ballot paper was itself fairly simply laid out, but the Leave position was sold to the UK as leaving in an orderly manner with trade agreements that minimized the disruption to th...

Nice roundup, well done. And nice narrator, threw me for a second when I was expecting to hear your voice